The Xiaomi 13 series is going official this week with an iPhone-like design - Android Police

Xiaomi’s next-gen flagships besides present a caller MIUI merchandise

Xiaomi phones whitethorn not person immoderate authoritative US presence, but they're inactive precise overmuch connected our radar, and the top-end Xiaomi 12 bid made it large successful Europe and different planetary markets, going head-to-head with some of the champion flagships retired there. The Xiaomi 12 Pro was rather awesome successful its ain close and near america hopeful astir its follow-up. That sequel is yet going authoritative this week, with the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro acceptable to debut with immoderate large camera upgrades successful concern with Leica.

The institution confirmed that the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro volition beryllium unveiled connected Thursday, December 1 (via Android Authority). The 2 phones volition archetypal spell authoritative successful China earlier presumably being announced elsewhere, but fixed Xiaomi’s way record, planetary availability shouldn’t instrumentality long.

The announcement station mentions that some flagship phones volition travel with 2 large upgrades. Firstly, they’ll travel moving MIUI 14 retired of the box. While determination isn’t overmuch accusation astir Xiaomi’s unreleased bundle truthful far, it is expected to beryllium based connected the latest Android 13 version. Secondly, Xiaomi is continuing with its Leica relation connected the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro aft investigating the waters with the Xiaomi 12S Ultra.

In his Xiaomi 12S Ultra review, Ben Sin of XDA recovered that Leica’s colour subject gives the images a distinct, contrasty look. The photos turned retired to beryllium bully successful each lighting conditions, and low-light shots were peculiarly little grainy. Considering the Xiaomi 13 Pro is rumored to get the aforesaid 50MP 1-inch IMX989 main sensor, you tin expect a akin look from the upcoming telephone arsenic well.

Thanks to the renders produced by OnLeaks, we’ve already had a bully look astatine however the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro are apt to appear. The non-Pro exemplary takes dense plan inspiration from caller iPhones with a precise level beforehand and back. Those symmetrical show bezels and a azygous selfie camera successful the halfway springiness it a reasonably minimalist look, though we bash inactive get a triple-cam setup connected the back.

In contrast, the Xiaomi 13 Pro volition get you that premium interaction with its curved show and backmost for a amended in-hand grip. A monolithic camera bump houses the caller sensor, portion Qualcomm’s top-tier Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor hides nether the hood. Other rumored specs see Samsung’s caller E6 LTPO display, up to 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and super-fast 120W charging.